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Believer  #279907  Fri, 13 Oct 06 01:11 AM

Hi,

If you were trying ask whether there is any difference, how would you normally ask?

Is there  any difference?

Are there any differences?

Back to the main point. What is the difference between "bullet form" and "point form"?

And if you can, please tell me where they would be used in the academic or professional cycle besides in newspapers.  How here, would you use point form?

1. Making (personal??) comments on something one said or written (someone's writing).

2. In the list of written work attached/enclosed

3. In the table of contents

4. Workplace/school rules

Sorry if my question is too broad.. 
  
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Grammar Geek  #279918  Fri, 13 Oct 06 01:48 AM

If you think there is only one difference, ask What is the difference? or Is there any difference?

If you think there are likely to be several differences, then use the plural.

I personally am not familiar with "point form." I use "bullets."

I use bullets when I have at least two points that are very similar. They need to be parallel. I would not use bullets for a noun phrase and an adjective phrase.

I'm not sure what you mean by #1. If I am editing the person's writing, I make the comments within the document.

Citations are usually listed in a specific format.

Tables of contents are ... tables. Not bullets.

Rules lend themselves well to bullets, or to being numbers.
  
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